Vic Silayan

Acting

Vic Silayan

Born 1928-12-31 · Nueva Ecija, Philippines

Acting credits

Kisapmata poster
8.3

A young womans gets married but her possessive father refuses to let her out of his sight.

Kisapmata

1981

Daughters of Satan poster
4.4

A man buys a painting depicting witches being burned at the stake, one of whom bears an uncanny resemblance to his wife.

Daughters of Satan

1972

Lilet poster
7.7

An unstable young woman finally blows the cover of her repressive family's dark secrets when her memories where unlocked with the help of an ardent suitor.

Lilet

1971

American Guerrilla in the Philippines poster
5.5

American soldiers stranded in the Philippines after the Japanese invasion form guerrilla bands to fight back. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2001.

American Guerrilla in the Philippines

1950

Project: Kill poster
5.1

A former government assassin flees a mind-control program in the Philippines, pursued by his ex-partner, the local police and Asian gangsters.

Project: Kill

1976

The Longest Hundred Miles poster
6.6

During the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, an assorted group of refugees, including an American soldier, an Army nurse, a priest and a group of local children, try to make their getaway aboard a rattletrap, creaky bus.

The Longest Hundred Miles

1967

Night of the Cobra Woman poster
4.1

After being bitten by a cobra in the Philipines, Lena can turn herself into a snake and she stops aging. The curse comes with a price. The priestess Lena must consume cobra venom and vital young men to stay young.

Night of the Cobra Woman

1972

The Ravagers poster
6.5

A story about a Filipino guerilla Sargent who was tasked to ambush a company of Japanese soldiers staying at a convent.

The Ravagers

1965

No Man Is an Island poster
6.2

The true story of George Tweed, an American sailor who became the only serviceman on the island of Guam to avoid capture by the Japanese during the early years of World War II.

No Man Is an Island

1962

The Children of An Lac poster
6.4

Based on the true story of film actress Ina Balin and her efforts with American Red Cross volunteer Betty Tisdale, as well as a compassionate Vietnamese woman running a Saigon orphanage, to rescue as many children as possible and fly them out of the country before South Vietnam's fall in the spring of 1975 through the An Lac baby-lift.

The Children of An Lac

1980

Pacific Inferno poster
5.5

After the fall of the Philippines in World War II, the Japanese discover that Gen. MacArthur ordered millions of dollars in silver dumped in Manila Bay in order that it not fall into enemy hands. Among the prisoners the Japanese have taken are two American U.S. Navy deep-sea divers, whom they then force to dive in search of the sunken treasure.

Pacific Inferno

1979

I Love You Mama, I Love You Papa poster
10.0

A divorced couple fight over their son.

I Love You Mama, I Love You Papa

1986

Manila Dragnet poster
8.0

Joseph Estrada takes on drugs and organized crime around Manila's Chinatown.

Manila Dragnet

1973

Pilipinas Kong Mahal poster
NR

A story of a man who joined the guerilla in World War 2.

Pilipinas Kong Mahal

1965

Katawang Alabok poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Katawang Alabok

1978

Of the Flesh poster
6.9

When Narcing brings home his wife Puring to their hometown Mulawin in the 1930s, it sets off a series of events that include parricide, infidelity, betrayal, guilt and redemption.

Of the Flesh

1983

Paradise of Terror poster
5.7

When a military plane is shot down in uninhabited jungle in an unknown Asian country, the men aboard have to contend with a mysterious house which, once entered, proves difficult to leave.

Paradise of Terror

1965

Tigershark poster
4.8

A martial arts instructor sets out to rescue his girlfriend who is being held for ransom by a South American warlord.

Tigershark

1987

Blood and Love on a Piece of Land poster
7.5

The greatest, longest, most expensive film produced in the film history of the Philippines. Five segments with an all-star cast, directed by five directors with a running time of 3 hours and 20 minutes.

Blood and Love on a Piece of Land

1975

Child of Sorrow poster
5.9

A war hero forced to participate in a smuggling ring meets a prostitute in the postwar ruins of Manila.

Child of Sorrow

1956

The Last Reunion poster
5.8

Several members of a platoon of American soldiers not only kill a Japanese general, but also rape and murder the man's wife. The couple's son, Kimon, witnesses these ghastly events and vows revenge. Thirty-three years later the platoon get back together in Manila for a reunion. The adult Kimon also shows up to pick off the platoon members who are responsible for butchering his parents.

The Last Reunion

1980

I am Blushing poster
9.0

"I am blushing" - Swedish comedy about a film crew traveling to the Philippines to find environments for a movie.

I am Blushing

1981

Huk in a New Life poster
7.7

Carding, the anti-Japanese guerrilla turned Huk rebel when his family's land is taken over by the greedy landlord while Maxie, the communist recruiter who assures Carding that only a communist can be a true Filipino; however it was Jesus, Carding's brother-in-law who shoots Carding in the arm foiling his attempt to escape the military.

Huk in a New Life

1953

No artwork available
9.0

The film tells a story of large rural families suffering from economic insecurity in a remote part of the town of Magdalena, Laguna, where major life events are punctuated by the tollling of the church bells, and the coastal community of Dalahican, Quezon. Both places are homes of large families dealing with the reality of poverty.

The Bells of San Jose

1974